Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Many of the barmaids at the Folies Bergère also served as prostitutes. Standing behind the oranges, the champagne and a bottle of Bass ale, the woman appears just as much a commodity as these other things. But she doesn't accept this: she is coldly aloof from her objectification. (5/n) 1423
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view! But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible! (1/n) 416456
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This diagram shows how the perspective works in Manet's famous painting Un bar aux Folies Bergère. We are viewing the woman at an angle, and while the man is outside our field of view, his reflection can be seen. Astounding! But it's not just a technical feat. (3/n) 1498
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The trickery allowed Manet to make a deep point. You think the barmaid is looking at you. The other customer thinks he's looking at him. That is her job. She is literally SPLIT. In fact she's not looking at anyone. She is completely detached - perhaps bored, perhaps introspective. (4/n) 28213
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise. 31704142
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialVetoknox @vetoknox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My favourites are: "Why would you say that?" "The fuck are you talking about?" "Are you being serious right now?" "Are you fucking kidding me?" "The fuck did you just say?" It's effective cuz you act as a surrogate authority. Bigots are notoriously submissive to the whims of a loud mouth. Also👇static.klipy.comWho The F*** Starts A Conversation Like That?ALT: Who The F*** Starts A Conversation Like That? 0216
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026*whispers* electorates across the Western world make very similar decisions because they’re governed by similar philosophies efforts to identify the “worst” work to occlude this fact. 1559
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026It’s a little … odd we’re getting all of these reconciliation pieces at the current nadir of popularity of the far right at least in the US. 68417
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialFur Affinity 🏳️⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cbstatic.klipy.comGondor FlameALT: Gondor Flame 252100818771
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialDani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous. 4336342543
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026It should not be the case that higher education requires a six figure capital investment, that’s bullshit not kids getting higher education. 520230
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026We don’t have to pivot to teenage kids being a bad investment if we acknowledge we shouldn’t regard people through an ROI lens. 221628
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit. 5494104
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialWill Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will... 793146638
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Found a Link To the vid: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLau...m.youtube.comOstentatious Plainness: Copley's portrait of the MifflinsYouTube video by Smarthistory 000
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is 321528285
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thanks Gavin Newsom!!! 13624124
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Kiki Smith, Singing Siren, 2003 #womensart 036752
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Interested to hear your thoughts on the work & the analysis. 110
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Found a YT link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLau...m.youtube.comOstentatious Plainness: Copley's portrait of the MifflinsYouTube video by Smarthistory 110
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026? I’m not using a student account, I mainly just exit out the tabs. I’ll try to find the video somewhere else and post the link to it. If you can access the page, but not the video, then there should be a transcript. I’ll see what I can do. 100
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Reminded me of this very good art history video on the subject. This phenomenon is as old as the US itself, even more so: www.khanacademy.org/humanities/a...khanacademy.orgClient Challenge 121
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026tangentially related 340272
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12529901782
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026René Magritte at work in his living room in 1964 3088494
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026“California voters ended affirmative action in college admissions in a 1997 ballot measure.” This is why anyone who insisted the case against affirmative action aimed at Harvard etc would end this particular racist tact was always either naive or dishonest. apnews.com/article/ucla...apnews.comJustice Department finds UCLA law school illegally used race in admissionsThe Justice Department found Thursday that the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, illegally considered race in admissions. 34016
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112674093
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialMomma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much- 28743512826
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If I did not want to be blamed for the state of things, I simply would not have spent a century smashing, assassinating and pillaging my way across the globe in the single minded pursuit of the anticommunist goals of my religious fanatic leadership class. 120928
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like I'm fucking sorry you know what makes it much harder to reform your government? If all the money and infrastructure gets given to a small group of hand picked bastards by a global anticommunist regime that *will* kick the fuck out of you if you ever look at socialism. 120125
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234061270
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.truthout.orgTennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault VictimChrista Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years. 771204571
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026Yeah and that’s why the coffee being iced and iced coffee being seen as a more feminine drink preferred by younger people kind of explains people acting as if it’s unheard of and out of line. 1264667
buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026FWIW, the limits for artists in my, very commercial and illustration focused, college was, “don’t decapitate a living chicken in front of people, that don’t know it was going to happen; also, clean after yourself and don’t make it someone else’s chore.” You will be okay. 030
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warnNew report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms 10301131
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841391672
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 23/09/2026No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course. www.wired.com/story/emma-w...wired.comShe’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have KidsNo IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course. 2213437
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat. 6383134
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026“Since 1973, 27 gangs or subgroups have been identified through lawsuits & reports compiled by the department’s independent oversight bodies. The gangs have operated out of patrol stations & inside the county’s jails, giving themselves names like the “Banditos,” “Regulators,” and “Lynwood Vikings.” 8412151
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this isn't conjecture. This is the EXACT reason why one of the quickest ways to shut down a fash with a camera is to start shouting: "this video is brought to you by SquareSpace!" INSTANT demonitization. Because the streaming/social platforms already protect their advertisers more than the state. 9692148
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 372981916
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialPear Bear @pearshapedbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hey y’all, we had a couple more kind donations and now we’re 1/10th there, but only have a week left I don’t have a safety net, no one to swoop in and nowhere to go if I lose my housing. All I can do is ask for help and hope for a miracle. Thank you for your time, PearBear gofund.me/8b605cd39 02735
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”statesman.comUT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classesThe provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum. 914589
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 28/06/2026this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would 472654991
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wilber’s attorney: “Wilber has a bullet lodged near his spine and is losing feeling on the left side of his body.” #AbolishICE @DoorDash 19539991880
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment 1483695470
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 19/09/2025And to make it a little clearer: the kinds of power arrangements that enable sprightly and seemingly eternal customer service are...authoritarian. A democratic or egalitarian shop will not have workers who are so servile and so ever-pleasing. Consumers are not treated as full citizens or adults. 116016
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 19/09/2025This is so well put. People treat institutions like retailers. They think the can vent or boycott or demand changes that don't involve any personal commitment from themselves. And they think if they change their mind, or realize it was just a dumb phase, that institutions will simply adapt to them. 328732
Reposted by @buzzerbetsi.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90youtu.beSmart Answers to Stupid Comments About SlaveryYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 541378332